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American Medical Informatics Association Call For Mentors

Dear AMIA member,

Last year, the AMIA CIS-WG conducted a successful pilot mentorship program, and the AMIA Board of Directors approved to extend this program. We wrote to you a month ago to let you know that the Mentorship program is open for pre-registration.

We had a more than 70 Mentees sign up for the program – a great success, but we are still lacking Mentors (only 29 signed up).

We plan to match Mentors and Mentees based on interests and location as an AMIA membership benefit.

By participating mentors have the opportunity to:

get to know great newer trainees;

help newer trainees with some/all of the above in highly manageable way;

If you are interested in being a Mentor, you will ask you to go to to the AMIA Mentorship Program application on the web (http://derm.med.jhmi.edu/amia_mentorship/ ), where you will provide basic information to assist us in placing you in a good match. Once matched, Mentees and Mentors will partner actively for the duration of that calendar year. Mentors, you may participate in the program in an ongoing basis, and we hope that you will!

We will contact you with your mentorship partner’s information in the early fall. Mentees will kick things off by initiating first contact with their Mentors. You’ll interact with your program partner at least once per month for the full calendar year. We will provide you with reminders and suggestions on how to collaborate and learn most effectively from each other.

After each Annual Symposium, near the end of your official program participation year, you and your partner will be asked to provide your feedback via a survey linked to the AMIA Website.